On 5 Dec 2014 at 19:35, Peter Slegg wrote:Is there any way to determine if a partition is VFAT with long filenames or just old 8+3 ?
2014-12-05 23:55 GMT+01:00 Roger Burrows<rfburrows@ymail.com>:Not without examining every dorectory, AFAIK. VFAT just says there may be LFNs on this partition, it doesn't mean there are any. I'm not sure why you'd want this anyway. Just set everything as VFAT except the partitions you want to use with TOS (or EmuTOS :-)). Roger
Am 06.12.14 00:27, schrieb Adam Klobukowski:
I think it is pretty safe to assume that FAT32 partitions are VFAT.
The interesting question about vfat usually is: Which desktop does work with which kind of vfat filenames? Some do 32, some 32.3, some 255.x filenames or whatever. So even if you set the system to use vfat on your partitions you might end up with 8.3 filenames because one desktop has issues with filenames another desktop worked fine with. This might affect a tool that uses desktop funktions to determine if a partition has long filenames.
I'm not certain about the way MagiC or MiNT handle vfat names on a low system level, so there might be further stumbling blocks when interchangeing drives.
Additionally I don't think F32 has to be vfat although I'd expect most people to use it that way.
LNX or MIX should be vfat as well. Greetings, Jens